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Poster: | cooperway4 | Date: | Jan 6, 2011 5:05pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
And it has been believed since 1984 that this film is in the public domain and no one affiliated with the film has stated otherwise.
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 6, 2011 7:42pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
Transfer 1
The brother from another planet;
Type of Work: Recorded Document
Document Number: V3475D700
Date of Recordation: 2001-10-26
Entire Copyright Document: V3475 D700 P1
Date of Execution: as of 1Jan91; date of cert.: 22Oct01
Title: The brother from another planet; motion picture.
Notes: Assignment.
Party 1: A Train films, Inc.
Party 2: John Sayles.
Names: Sayles, John
A Train films, Inc.
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The brother from another planet;
Type of Work: Recorded Document
Document Number: V3475D696
Date of Recordation: 2001-10-26
Entire Copyright Document: V3475 D696 P1
Date of Execution: as of 20Mar96; date of cert.: 22Oct01
Title: The brother from another planet; motion picture.
Notes: Assignment.
Party 1: John Sayles.
Party 2: Anarchists Convention, Inc.
Names: Sayles, John
Anarchists Convention, Inc.
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Poster: | cooperway4 | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 2:46am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 3:10am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
A "work made for hire" is— (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
17 USC §101
Considering the film makers set up a corporation to "own" their contributions to the film, I think we can consider it meeting the requirements of the second condition.
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 3:25am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
The brother who fell to earth : a.k.a. Brother from another planet /...
Type of Work: Recorded Document
Document Number: V3475D695
Date of Recordation: 2001-10-26
Entire Copyright Document: V3475 D695 P1
Date of Execution: as of 25Aug83
Title: The brother who fell to earth : a.k.a. Brother from another planet / Screenplay.
Notes: Assignment.
Party 1: John Sayles.
Party 2: A Train Films, Inc.
Variant title: Brother from another planet
Names: Sayles, John
A Train Films, Inc.
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Poster: | cooperway4 | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 3:45am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
Type of Work: Recorded Document
Document Number: V2037P799
Date of Recordation: 1983-12-27
Entire Copyright Document: V2037P799-802
Date of Execution: 16Sep83; 15Dec83
Title: The Brother who fell to earth; motion picture.
Notes: Security agreenment (motion picture and copyright)
Party 1: A-Train Films.
Party 2: Screen Actors Guild, Inc.
so shouldn't it have said copyright Screen Actors Guild, Inc.?
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Poster: | cooperway4 | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 3:47am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 4:00am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |
These VHS releases -
Key Video (1986, discontinued)
Fox Home Video (1990, discontinued)
UAV (1999, discontinued)
These DVD versions -
UAV (2001, Discontinued)
MGM Home Entertainment (2003, Authorised restoration. In print)
Guillotine Films (2003, Discontinued)
Digital 1 Stop (2004, Discontinued)
EastWest DVD (2007, Discontinued)
Amazon also has user uploaded "createspace" Made On Demand DVD-Rs available from "Synergy Entertainment" and "Artflix".
As most of these labels are still in business, one could easily assume that they had somehow learned of the copyright status of the film.
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 7, 2011 4:21am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Please remove |